§ MR. O'SHEAasked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether the Irish Board of Works will advertise the reletting of the eel fisheries of the Shannon at an early date, in order that the inhabitants of the banks of the middle and upper sections of the river may be afforded a reasonable opportunity of competing; and, whether it is intended to revert to the former practice, under which the lessees were obliged to fish the weirs at Killaloe, County Clare?
§ MR. COURTNEY,in reply, said, that the eel fisheries at two or three places on the Shannon would be advertised to be let in two or three months, and the one at Athlone as soon as the present lease had expired. No such practice referred to by the hon. Member was known to have existed.